Excited to be a part of this awesome series and in conversation with Lisa Messeri !

First up (on 2/21/24) will be Jim Malazita, whose book "Enacting Platforms" will be out through MIT Press on July 2 (direct order link below). We'll be talking about how he wrote a killer book proposal and synthesized theory with his objects of study. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548243/…

In this week’s Academic Writing Talk podcast, I interview Jim Malazita about book proposals and interdisciplinary scholarship! He's the author of “Enacting Platforms,” coming out on July 2 in The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social' Platform Studies series (HT Ian Bogost & Bad Quarto). indeliblevoice.com/podcast/academ…

I had a great time talking with Dr. Aure Schrock about writing, blending theory in readable ways, and general approaches to thinking about what it's like to put together a book!

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 At long last, the trilogy is complete! The D&D book is coming out next year!!!! Thanks to everyone who ever read my stuff and encouraged me to keep going. This one will have all the deep cuts on it.

Hey Graphics Folks, ever wonder who the “Phong” was that invented Phong shading? Turns out his last name wasn’t Phong, and his death is connected to the U.S.'s use of chemical weapons during the Vietnam War. Yoehan Oh 오요한 | @[email protected] and I wrote about it in @time: time.com/6974656/toy-st…

MIT出版のプラットフォーム叢書はブログでも紹介してきたがigdajac.blogspot.com/2023/01/2022.h… 7月にはアンリアルエンジンのSTS研究が出版予定．これまでもフェミニストゲームスタディーズはゲーム史を掘り起こしてきたが，様々な分野で使われるようになったゲームエンジンはSTSの研究対象として興味深い．

📘 Enacting Platforms ✍ Jim Malazita An analysis of the game engine Unreal through feminist, race, and queer theories of technology and media, as well as a critique of the platform studies framework itself. Available #OpenAccess. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548243/…

If anyone at #digra2024 wants to hang out and geek out about Unreal and feminism, hit me up! 📖

Becoming a dinosaur scientist and winning a gold medal for jumping on the trampoline, don't tell any 7 year old their dreams are out of reach

The final chat featured Lisa Messeri and Jim Malazita on VR, game engines, and other technological infrastructures supporting our contemporary unrealities talking through their books, "In the Land of the Unreal" (Duke University Press) + "Enacting Platforms" (The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social). vimeo.com/993742657

Thanks Ted! It's wonderful to see the book pop up across disciplines!!

#PubDay for my first book, Access Is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality, where I argue the push to ameliorate racial inequality via data-intensive #edtech extracts resources from working-class communities of color here in California. ucpress.edu/books/access-i…